this is news coming to you live from berlin he played the president in a t.v. show now he's set to become president for real comedian a ball of me is taking the oath of office to officially start his term as ukraine's new leader he has no political experience so what's his plan for the country we'll go live to kiev. after 6 weeks of voting india's miracle election is finally over it's being called a referendum on prime minister modi is he headed for

a 2nd term and what would that mean for the country. also coming up an anniversary here in germany at the core of the country's democracies the basic law was enacted 70 years ago speaks to this talk president spoke on short book about what it means for germany today. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us former actor and comedian volodymyr selenski is being sworn in at this hour as ukraine's new president selenski won a landslide victory in last month's election but there's still little known about the future direction his leadership will take he has no political experience although then playing the president in a television set call this election is widely seen as a protest vote against the failure. about going president or ashamed.

for more now d. w. as nick connolly joins us from outside the ukrainian parliament in kiev nick a t.v. sitcom actor who played the president is about to be sworn in as as the real thing is supposed to be a surreal moment for ukraine. good morning terry well he has just walked down the red carpet since ukraine's parliament behind me to begin his inauguration this has indeed been a pretty surreal couple of weeks here the campaign it was often difficult to tell what was fact and fiction so let's give the candidate using clips of himself from the series in which he played a president to become the president for real something which he did very successfully but it seems ukrainians have got used to that thought of the comedian being then you present extraordinarily quickly i think it really takes that outside perspective to really remember quite how unusual situation is let's take

a look at how we got that i want you expecting. my. it was a result that even zelinsky himself seen you couldn't quite believe 73 percent almost 3 quarters of ukraine voters had put their trust in him as the political year by a man who had only announce his intention to run in just a few months before a face familiar to almost all ukrainians from television but someone who had never been involved in politics let alone run for office. for incumbent petro poroshenko it was a stinging defeat losing to zelinsky in all but one ukraine's regions his pitch to the nation as commander in chief as the man who had kept ukraine in its army together in the face of russian aggression had fallen on deaf ears simply in the weeks since his sensational victory selenski has kept out of the limelight making only a handful of appearances most of them on social media as ukraine's parliament squabbled

over the timing of the inauguration but what is it the ukrainians are really expecting a new president to do. i don't really know what to expect but i'm hoping for the best i've had enough of all the old faces and politics. of the happy to face corruption in our country that's the main thing. is that how you measure is always the put selenski let's see what to expect from him as president. was in his fictional inauguration as president and the series 70 people zelinsky charms his audience by throwing stuff the protocol of a bold and refusing to speak or behave like a politician. whether the real presence alinsky will manage to pull off the same feat only time will tell but one thing is already clear he's captured the country's imagination and he won't be the last showbusiness star weighing in on ukraine's politics as the country's most famous rock musician says he too plans to launch a new party. and we are live just outside the ukrainian parliament with our

correspondent nick conley in kiev and got some live pictures from the inauguration ceremonies taking place right now a look at the next selenski has no political experience what qualities do you cranium see in him that they think could make him a good leader. well terry i think this election was more about a rejection of the old system poroshenko is a representative of an old generation of ukrainian politics who politicians rather who have failed to really allow this country make good on its huge potential this is after all one of the poorest countries in europe still do but despite its huge economic potential so people were frustrated about corruption low standards of living and they wanted a new face and new generation and so let's he was very capable very good at channeling those emotions pitching himself as a fresh face but equally a face that people knew from t.v. had no problem explaining to the actor who he was and so it was more they say

fairly abstract promise of change of a new person a new approach to politics rather than the nitty gritty and the kind of concrete political steps that really seems to convince ukrainians to vote for anything but the politicians they knew. they took we know anything about selenski plans for the country. well terry we're scratching our heads here he gives very few media interviews and he hasn't given any since he was elected prefer and said to let his advisors do the talking but even they are pretty nebulous when it comes to the nitty gritty of the detail he has talked about shaking up the system and more concrete terms taking away the immunity that that politicians the members of parliament and the president has to allow them to face charges and even prosecution he talks about giving ukrainians more of a say over every day politics to referendums but so far that's all pretty abstract and as president he won't be able to do this alone he'll need. a majority in

parliament which he doesn't have so he's now trying to bring forward elections to the parliament next to me while he's still riding high in those polls to really capitalize on this wave of support and his opponents are doing their best to prevent him doing that so for now colossal expectations here from order you can use that this is someone who will really change ukraine and allow its off to 2030 years of independence to really make good on its potential but no sign yet that he really will be allowed to do so any time soon nic thank you very much our correspondent nick conley there in kiev just outside the parliament of ukraine where the inauguration ceremony for the incoming president is just getting underway thanks a lot nic. straight austria is do is to hold staff elections in early september following a corruption scandal involving one of the parties in the governing coalition secret footage sought shot in a beach in 2017 shows by chancellor heinz close. of the far right freedom party

apparently offering government contracts to a person posing as russian invest or in exchange for political favors to resign after the video was released by 2 german publications. in the form of bedroom of holy roman imprest maria teresa austria's president and the chancellor announced the election date following the collapse of the governing coalition the vote will be earlier than planned they have plenty of they feel i recommend new elections in september. what they didn't mention is whether austria's current cabinet will remain in office until the vote will be replaced with the interim ministers that includes portfolios controlled by the far right freedom party. the most important thing now is to ensure disclosure at these events all of the videos suspicious details have to be examined this video is a given people have to be. which might prove tricky with an interior ministry led

by the freedom party's habit. there are questions as to whether he can be trusted to clarify heinz christians tatas misconduct or examine allegations of abuse of office bribery and illegal party financing the opposition is calling for an independent investigation. see is the snored main big i think the investigators should be experts and not members of the ministries involved as ok i'm the memo that the i am this we saw was the freedom party is holding talks at a secret location interior minister kittle is not eager to step down according to party sources for political analysts that doesn't come as a surprise this was kicking pickle is trying to keep his party colleagues motivated it's a sign of the freedom party returning to its defensive siege mentality that's what the at the experiencer that's looking at the wild conspiracy theories in connection with the obese of video are now making the rounds with the right wing populist but

chancellor could swill probably have to deal with the freedom party ministers to get anything done. the mention of the government's stability can mean a lot of things but you certainly doesn't want to risk an open conflict within the government and don't forget that in 4 months an interior minister can accomplish a lot of his political agenda and minister after numbers of a good boy and he's off the big butting at following the fight for meeting on my base or they were further contacts between a confidant of structure and the presumed russian investor that's according to the german daily sued dortch upside on the drunken tailors talk because it seems unlikely to be a one off misstep in a drunken stupor additional investigations will certainly be necessary. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today u.s. president donald trump has tweeted a stark warning to tehran writing if iran wants to fight that'll be the official

end of iran never threaten the united states again the remarks come in response to comments from iran's revolutionary guard saying it is not afraid of war google has suspended business with chinese communications giant huawei this could mean that new huawei smartphones will be shut out of popular google apps like g. mail and u 2 last week the trumpet ministration added 4 way to a trade blacklist amid accusations of spying for the chinese government while we did knives the claims. and officials in brazil say gunman have killed 11 people in a bar in the northern city of bell and police say the attackers fled the scene but that one was wounded and is in custody the motive is not yet. voting in india's national elections has ended with exit polls predicting

a 2nd term for prime minister no rendering modi long queues formed outside polling stations in the final round of voting throughout the election modi's hindu nationalist b j p and its rivals have accused each other of violence fraud and intimidation election is seen as a referendum on modi and his policies results are expected on thursday. our correspondent jobs wall has been following the election from a bar run izzie in the northern state of utah pradesh it's the constituency of prime minister narendra modi as the machine explains the vote is being seen as a referendum on modi's leadership over the past 5 years. it is the final are of the final day of calling in india's mammoth 7 phase election we are standing at a polling station in the holy city of water nazi which is also a prestigious constituency because prime minister no dreams are more the is standing for reelection from here this is the city he represents in the lower halls

of parliament right now there have been some rumblings of discontent among stress events over a redevelopment project which he has spearheaded around an iconic temple in the city but he is still largely expected to win again from the skins to do and see the question to simply of how wide a margin he is going to win with now water nessie waters are not the only ones who are voting for nurturing the more the all across the country he has been and i can fault the ruling the g.o.p. even in his campaign speeches we have the prime minister saying that every vote on the lotus which is the election symbol off the b.g.p. every wart on the lotus is a water form or the this is what the prime minister has been saying and this is why this election is seen as a referendum on the last 5 years of prime minister narendra more these governance now of course on the opposition and we have the indian national congress led by the

who gandhi but these 2 parties in these 2 players are not the only ones which are relevant regional parties are expected to play an important role as many political analysts believe that a coalition government will form the government at the center unlike the majority government that prime minister narendra modi is leading right now even today there have been reports of opposition party leaders holding meetings perhaps to figure out to people alliance to find a way to take part but finally off to 6 long weeks these weeks and weeks and perhaps months of speculation about who the next prime minister will be is coming to a close it. has just 4 days to go for the results beeville be finding out if the country things that prime minister narendra modi should be awarded a 2nd term or if the national mandate will favor the challenger from the opposition rahul gandhi of perhaps some other candidate from one of the regional bodies to take the post of prime minister the way it is coming to an end in data science on

may 23rd. wall there reporting from the indian city of byron as. well it was introduced after the horrors of world war 2 and this week the german constitutional basic law marks its 70th anniversary the constitution came into effect in may $949.00 after being put together under the supervision of the victorious allied powers u.s. france and britain it's a must to ensure that after the years of nazi dictatorship and the destruction of the war the new germany was built on solid democratic nations 40 years later with west and east were unified the constitution was adopted in the new reunified germany. relevance is the constitution in today's germany article one for example states that human dignity is inviolable as part of our series it's my right our next story looks at what dignity means to

a german man who was homeless for 10 years. also. going to the toilet taking a shower the normal things for everyone how can you do this when you're homeless it's not so simple. dominick lived on the streets for 10 years always on the move looking for something to eat somewhere to sleep he says it was a life without dignity. dominick was 16 when his mother threw him out the streets of st paoli became his home the red light district of hamburg. doesn't come from.

when we beat each other up for a sleeping bag it's a fight for survival and then there's this the district violence and contempt where people come and they don't treat you with dignity but like dirt they piss on your sleeping bag is something they might not be it's. maybe someone will set me on fire beat me to death. you end up living just for the here and now and try to stay alive . yet dominic's got his high school diploma and volunteered in a clothing to pay for refugees people even worse off than him he sees this kind of thing all the time please wake up a sleeping homeless man and tell him to move on. this is also a question of dignity who among us who sits down somewhere at lunch time expects to be approached by 3 police officers and you see how they put on gloves because they discussed it. that's no way for people to treat each other.

dominic is working to offer homeless people some dignity he's collecting donations to pay for a shower bath a bathroom on wheels with a dressing room full of clean clothes he learned what hygiene can means for person when he was living on the streets. body and soul go hand in hand at some point if you physically do you turn inwards and feel in the end that you yourself that. has a lot to do with dignity and feelings of self-worth these are things that are lost on the streets. can help taking showers to people who need them. dominate his life in order he's 30 now and for the 1st time his existence is fairly secure he has work he has goals. and he has friends most importantly he says. i have an apartment and i appreciate

what that means local for me it's a luxury to be able to sleep in my books in shorts to watch myself whenever i feel like you know i need to show. them that he will have a dignity and that is inviolable and that should apply to everyone watching is a large part of that. well as we heard after german reunification 30 years ago it was decided that west germany was basic law could apply to the entire country today's president both going choice was a central figure in the goetia actions with the former communist east he spoke with our chief political editor. mr president what's so special about germany's basic law that was put on the 1st of all what's special about the basic law is the conditions under which it was created one must be clear germany had unconditionally surrendered after the catastrophe of hitler with total destruction of the 2nd world

war it was a ruined country and so we still think well to even have a sovereign state and to create a framework that then became something no one could have even imagined back then that's the great thing about this basic law when i look at the basic law today because i mean the most important thing is already contained in article one human dignity is an inviolable all the other things derive to an extent from this principle. and the strict weighed up that really of course we also have many other questions as article 38 which is the basis for the parliamentary mandate in which members are only bound by their conscience but they are also representatives of the whole people but they are discounted 4 percent. well it's and so it's a constitution that was created in post-war germany which at 1st was a kind of temporary solution and then became kind of

a top export many young democracies adopted parts of it how do you explain that this is of thought the 3 d. is often the case that things that at 1st are not at all claimed to be intended for eternity are often much more successful in the basic law is really a stroke of luck in german history get what you really sad it has become a talker export. little or is the precise embodiment of what a constitution must achieve provide stability and at the same time it's allows for change it's not rigid it's called because we've experienced unbelievable changes in the last 70 years the basic law has become the constitution of the united germany it's a real constitution no longer a temporary solution was deputy and for all these changes the basic law was both a basis of stability and at the same time a flexible framework in which the changes were possible this will also be important in the future we're facing dramatic changes especially due to technological

developments in the age of digital ization we must concern ourselves more and more with how we can assert values and it's not just the basic laws values but also of western democracy is the american declaration of human rights and the french revolution it's the legacy being expressed in these values of the west how can we also assert these values that were the games and acquired in the cheve in the real world in the digital world of the internet that's the big question all western democracies must deal with for which no one yet has a panacea but we're working on it so. bad. this is called because that's basically also a guy did you personally through historic upheavals you played a significant role in negotiating the reunification treaty of the 2 germany's looking to the future how future proof is this german constitution that is the daughter of a song called is it the basic law or is also

a good basis for the future because it's not just a stable foundation but also leaves room for change yes what we have is just the right balance the basic law becomes to tuition has been continuously further developed through the constitutional reality by what happened in the 70 years by the jurisprudence of the federal constitutional call because that's the way it is with every constitution even the american constitution is no longer the same as it was when it was created 200 years ago and that's the good thing if a constitution is good for anything it creates stability amidst all change the band and i was going to start president of guy tribal there speaking with our chief political editor mikhail cook now. during football for you know and all the action on sunday was in the 2nd division cologne finished the season 1st but the question was who would be joining them in the top flight next season going into the weekend

powerball and were sitting in 2nd one point ahead of lean how to born over the line but only just after a fabulous and ali. only on berlin's famous traveling support were in full voice to spur their team on against them both inside with nothing to play for. meanwhile part of own coach stephan bound got took his charges to a hostile to dresden and they started well philip clement slicing through the dresden defense to make it one nil. now it was another set of away fans making all the noise. but part of owens advantage was short lived dresden equalized through a goal that will give keeper lippold signal a nightmare as bearish arctics shot came back off the post and single it was in the perfect place to deflect the ball across the line. a chance for one young to take the advantage but they immediately threw that away poor defending allowed anthony low see it's a put ball from

a head when young completely failed to attract and he made them pay a coach was fisher could hardly believe his eyes. but part of bones performance was equally disastrous they were caught on the break with arctic finishing the move problems for bound got as the half time whistle went while the union fans were notably less raucous their mood didn't improve after the break when grisha promo gave away a cheap penalty silver gondola stepped up and scored. the beleaguered berliners barely getting a kick right. all this while dresden were doing them what could have been a huge favor scored again to put part of born 31 down. then suddenly on your. cup promo made up for his era with a long running strike the union fans finally with something to cheer and in the 86 minute maise made it to.

i but they couldn't school that crucial goal in a chaotic final phase. the draw confirmed their place in the playoff. and bones place in the top flight as the news filtered through the celebrations began i and mother spores mark marquez has extended his championship lead by winning the french moto g.p. at le monde's the spaniard started from pole position on his honda finish 2 seconds ahead of 2 copywriter. the victory was marked as his 3rd in the last 4 races as well as 310 moto g.p. it puts marquez 8 points ahead of italy's in the championship stand. and just reminder the top story we're following for you here on t w news comic.

that selenski is being sworn in as the new president of ukraine we're looking at live pictures there from the parliament the comedian and actor won a landslide victory in last month's election despite having no political experience selenski was shit was known for playing the president in a popular t.v. sitcom there he is. you watching. the fun. to get.

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